Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XVI. Custer’s Heart, sentence 3

The wild charge of Custer and his men and their utter defeat will be often told and retold in the wigwams of the tribes who fought him.

Who acts: tribes, charge · What happens: tell, retell, fight, charge, defeat · To what, where: wild charge, wigwams, man, Custer · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, XVI. Custer’s Heart. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (tribes, charge), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 charge	det
2	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 charge	amod
3	charge	charge	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 told	nsubj:pass
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 Custer	case
5	Custer	Custer	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 charge	nmod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 men	cc
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 men	nmod:poss
8	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 charge	conj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 defeat	cc
10	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 defeat	nmod:poss
11	utter	utter	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 defeat	amod
12	defeat	defeat	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 men	conj
13	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 told	aux
14	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	16 told	aux:pass
15	often	often	ADV	_	16 told	advmod
16	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 retold	cc
18	retold	retell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 told	conj
19	in	in	ADP	_	21 wigwams	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 wigwams	det
21	wigwams	wigwam	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 retold	obl
22	of	of	ADP	_	24 tribes	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 tribes	det
24	tribes	tribe	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 wigwams	nmod
25	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	26 fought	nsubj
26	fought	fight	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 tribes	acl:relcl
27	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 fought	obj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	future · passive		the wild charge of Custer and Custer's men and charge's utter defeat		often property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient
2	retell	participle			the wigwams of the tribes		tree rules
3	fight	past	the tribes	man			vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-Agent
4	charge			Custer			nom charge «act transitive»: of=patient
5	defeat		charge				nom defeat «event transitive»: poss=agent

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, Project Gutenberg book 73136 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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🌲 Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XVI. Custer’s Heart, sentence 3

The tree

Pragmatics

Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XVI. Custer’s Heart, sentence 3